430513 - Unaccounted airmen - 13-5-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Not found in Flight Global:
AC2 George COOK - 1783269.

B - Died of wounds or injuries received on active service:
F/Sgt (Pilot) Richard DAVIDSON - 548115 - listed in Casualty Communiqué Nr. 238, Flight 3-6-1943 page 593 as 'wounded or injured on active service'.

C - Killed on active service:
AC2 Percy DORRINGTON - 1324725 - 63 Sqn (Macmerry, East Lothian).

D - Also looking for the unit of LAC James M. PHIMISTER - 1059343 - DOAS - buried Capuccini (Naval) Cem., Malta.

E - Proposed aircraft losses:
Master I - T8633 - 7 (P)AFU - crashed on approach Sibson.
Hotspur II Glider - HH253 - 5 GTS - crashed in forced landing Fedw Farm, 5 miles SW of Radnor.
Mustang I - AP184 - 63 Sqn - crashed on take-off Macmerry (flown by an AC2 ? - refer to AC2 Dorrington, or killed on the ground by the Mustang ?).

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[AlanW]

Henk,
Phimister 229 N.A.D
Cook...Durham SE.
Davidson...Louth.
Dorrington....Gladsmuir, East Lothian. Mcmerry aerodrome, fractured skull and mandible, second degree burns to face, head and hands.

[Theletterwriter]

Henk

AC2 Percy DORRINGTON - 1324725 - 63 Sqn (Macmerry, East Lothian) aged 18 : death registered Gladsmuir, County of East Lothian, Scotland.

Douglas

[AL90]

Henk,
From my files I have AC2 Percy DORRINGTON - 1324725 - 63 Sqn was killed in Mustang AP184 when he crashed on take off on an unauthorised flight in which he was not qualified.

Regards,
Alan.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks friends for all your help; how would my files look like without all your terrific support.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

F/Sgt (Pilot) Richard DAVIDSON - 548115 - the Graves Registration Report Form lists his unit as 7 A.A.C.U.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Frederick Warren Fisher 87183, attached to 28 OTU , died in Loughborough hospital of pneumonia secondary to haemopytsis

[jonheyworth]

Richard Davidson 548115 , was killed in a flying accident when Oxford N6296 crashed into the sea off North Tenby, Lincolnshire, his body being washed up near North Coates on 29 May